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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Compass: Exploring Value, Truth, and Knowledge

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MITx Online

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What is truth? How do we know what we know? How do values shape decision-making? Learn critical thinking skills for interpreting information, drawing valid inferences, and navigating difficult decisions using tools from philosophy, history, economics, and data science.

Syllabus

  • Philosophical value frameworks, and how to identify your own values
  • Grounding in philosophical understanding of truth, and how we know what is true
  • Understanding of what “truth” means in science, and how science builds claims about the world
  • Rubrics for evaluating statistics and metrics, and whether they are useful and meaningful

Taught by

Lily Tsai, Alex Byrne, Anne McCants, Robin Wolfe Scheffler, Sally Haslanger, Tristan G. Brown, and William Deringer

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